incidentally its worth remembering a lot of these videos (or at least the bits which are uploaded to the public internet) are shot close to the stack to avoid being too incriminating.
Usually you get a lot of younger people stacking/moshing up at the front who haven’t got as much to lose from being seen on video (i.e if cops see them its only proof they were dancing to loud music and not organising the party) – so it looks like a party contains more “kids” than there actually are.
This happens in Oxon as well as East Anglia BTW…
If you stand a bit further back you see a lot more “older” people.
Not everyone is fond of stacking as you risk getting accidentally knocked about and if people are not careful the entire stack can get pushed over (I’ve seen it happen before 🙁 ) It tends to be popular with the 16-20 age group who also listen to angst-ridden grunge type rock on the comedowns (a lot of my younger friends in Reading were like this).
Incidentally last weekend a few teenagers were trying to get me to join in with the stacking but I was having none of it (the way I felt at the time I would have ended up on the ground!)
BTW the “perimeter fence to keep the cops out” the local papers reported about the teknival was actually an arrangement of scaffold poles to keep moshers a reasonable distance from the stack to stop it being pushed over!
